US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 25 for "In-vehicle system and control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,209, issued on March 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"In-vehicle system and control device" was invented by Kazuyoshi Shiohara (Nagoya, Japan), Masaki Miyake (Toyota, Japan) and Takayuki Fujimoto (Seto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of control devices include a master control device and a slave control device. The master control device transmits, when software stored in a storage area different from the start storage area is updated in the slave control device, to the slave control device, a switching instruction for setting the storage area that stores the updated software as the start st...